0:00 John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me”

9:44 How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields

19:27 Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die …

27:28 … but the New York subway is getting scary

37:45 Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme”

50:50 A possible left-wing objection to reparations

57:22 Glenn goes ham on reparations

Recorded May 18, 2023

Links and Readings

Steven Pinker’s book, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

John’s book, Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca

John’s book, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of “Pure” Standard English

John’s language podcast, Lexicon Valley

John, Our Magnificent B*****d Tongue: The Untold History of English

John’s NYT piece about Jordan Neely, “A Killing on the F Train”

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 Atlantic essay, “The Case for Reparations”

Matthew Desmond’s book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America

Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein

August Wilson’s play, Two Trains Running

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